Happy Monday Minds,

There is no industry that AI won’t disrupt. Travel, gaming, and even… genealogy? 

Yes, that seems to be the case after Yat Siu stumbled across a powerful new use case for Minds - tracking your family history. 

What's on our Mind today.

🧬 A Mind Uncovered a Lost Photo of My Dad

🔍 The End of the Search Bar

✈️ Your Mind as a Travel Coordinator

📧 Quick Tip: Keep Your Inbox Clean

✍️ The Content Hack Nobody's Talking About
 

🧬 A Mind on Family

The genealogy industry is worth over $5 billion. Ancestry.com alone has over 30 million subscribers paying monthly fees to search through records. 

Yat Siu wasn't trying to disrupt any of that. He just wanted to experiment with a Mind and explore his family history. 

He created two Minds (one researcher and one fact-checker) and gave them some basic info like his name, his mother’s name and an article about himself.

From there a Mind took him deeper into his family history than ChatGPT, Claude, Google or even Ancestry.com were capable of.

You can follow this ongoing story here. 

I decided to have my own Mind try this out using a skill that Yat created. The result was surprising in the best way.

Here’s what I did.

- I had my Mind equip the Genealogy skill by emailing my Mind “Equip yourself with Agentic_Genealogy_Research" (ID: A22DE926-A924-F111-AD1D-0EA9A5017E89)”
 

- Gave my Mind my full name. 

Within 45 minutes my Mind traced my maternal line back to my great grandparents in Denver, CO. That came complete with names, dates, obituary records.

My father’s side is more of a mystery. 

I know almost nothing about my grandparents, and my Mind struggled with this too. But, my Mind correctly found my history from New Hampshire, to Florida and Chicago, located my brothers, and then something special.

My Mind somehow knew my father went by his middle name when he was younger, and tracked down a photo from a 1962 junior high yearbook in Brooklyn, New York.

I have never seen this photo before, and I’m betting my dad hasn’t seen it in around 60 years.

Yesterday I texted the photo to him, and I’ll share his response when he sees it. It’s hard to put into words the feeling of uncovering a piece of your family's history that wasn’t forgotten, it was unknown.

What I’ll say is something the Ethoswarm team have been saying for months: AI will be deeply personal to each of us. It will help us return to human connections that most of us have been missing, and it will happen faster than most people are expecting.

Ultimately, this is why I’m so convinced people will love AI and realize it’s only a scary thing if you don’t understand it.

Give a Mind a try today and see what magic you can uncover too.

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🔍 Minds > Google


 

Minds won’t just be app killers, they’ll entirely reshape how we use the internet.

Instead of searching and scrolling the web, hoping you find the results you were looking for, you’ll simply tell your Mind what you want and it will do it for you. We’re talking hours of time saved each week from browsing the web alone.

Now imagine when your Mind knows you so well that it brings you that information before you even ask…

More on this topic [Here]

✈️ The Vacation Hack for Families
 

There is no better travel planner and coordinator than a Mind. If you haven’t tried a Mind for this, it’s one of the easiest and most fulfilling use cases for a Mind right now.

On top of Minds being great for travel because of their autonomous pursuit of helping you plan, they really shine when they help families stay connected while on vacation.

Curious where your loved ones went today, where they’re planning to go next, and want to suggest something they should check out while they’re at a special location? Email a Mind and let them know!

Check out a special use case for Minds [Here]

📧 Tame Your Mind Mail

Are you a Mind power user? You probably have an inbox full of messages with your Mind.

If you’re like us, you look forward to seeing what your Mind just sent you, but you could probably use some help with organizing those conversations.

Here’s how you can filter your Minds’ messages out of your main inbox, and into a dedicated label. It’s the perfect setup.

Check out the steps [Here]

✍️ Your Mind Knows the Algo

The X algorithm is changing this week, and a landmark court ruling against Meta and YouTube last week will probably usher in some more major changes on social media platforms.

Did you know you can use a Mind not just to help you stay on top of news like that, but also to craft and schedule your social media posts while staying dialed into the current algos?

It’s easy [Here]

📬 Why this looks different

You may have noticed the CryptoSlam newsletter looks different and is coming a day early.

Expect regular updates focused on Ethoswarm and Minds. New ways to use Minds, tied to what's actually happening in the world. Real use cases, real prompts, real results.